RealScouting;842427682 said:
LMAO. This isn't socialism or communism man. The NCAA isn't LETTING Kentucky do anything. Kids have a choice of where they want to go to school. What is the NCAA supposed to do ? Tell kids we can't let you guys go to Kentucky because we can't let them monopolize all the great players ? The draft thing is a terrible idea, and maybe you didn't mean it, but it was still not very wise to even suggest. Every other high school kid in the country, and I'm not talking about athletes, can choose where they want to go to school, but because you have an issue with Kentucky, then the NCAA shouldn't allow high school basketball players chose where they go to school ? And that makes sense to you ? Really ?
It's not Kentucky or calipari that anyone has a problem with as much as the notion that talent aggregates to disrupt the competitive balance. It is the natural desire for all to want to win, and so you always see it happen. Look at what wade, lebron, and ? Did to the nba in Miami? A lot of people had a problem with that, lebron taking a distorted low wage to fit other talent with in an effort to win. The major leagues implement spending caps and revenue sharing and luxury tax schemes to try and equalize franchises. But some factors cannot be leveled: the fact that NYC and LA and better markets for endorsement deals, eg.
The idea proposed would be revolutionary, and you have to accept it as such. Of course, in exchange for going wherever you get drafted, there would have to be something given in return, and that would be a salary. At which point, why ever talk about classes.
Real, get real - don't you think the players assembled now at Kentucky are generating more $ for the university than they are receiving back in form of scholarship $? And here's another interesting question, when Calipari's contract is up for renewal, how much do you think he should get paid? Think about it - he's got the recruiting thing down! If he prices himself on the open market, don't you think he could now bring the same championship caliper rosters to any of the traditionally top 25 basketball schools? How much is that worth a school in terms of increased revenue, both year over year, and spill over into future years as tradition builds up? Let's say he went to a big sports market like Boston that till now lacked an NCAA hoops champion. How much would they love to have the Kentucky roster there?!?! And not have to increase scholarship expenditures by one dime over the current amt... Or for Cal Berkeley, for that matter. How much would Cal pay to have a sold out Haas and an annually undefeated squad? (Never mind, we would not be able to academically qualify all players.)
There is not parity among the 300 plus D1 schools in the NCAA. The current Kentucky situation merely exemplifies that fact in bold, bright lights. Is it any different from John Wooden's UCLA squads of the 60's? Doubt it. How did the rest of the college basketball universe like it when they never lost for a decade? Is that good for the NCAA overall?
